ByteDance

ByteDance

Runs global short-video platforms with ads

Cloud Acceleration Research Intern - DPU & AI Infra

Summer 2027
No salary listed
Internship
PhD
Seattle, WA, USA
In Person
Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Able to commit to a full-time, 12-week internship during Summer 2027.
  • Proficiency in C/C++ or Rust, including systems-level development and debugging.
  • Strong Linux systems development experience.
  • Solid understanding of operating systems, computer architecture, networking, or distributed systems.
  • Background in at least one of software-hardware co-design, computer architecture, distributed storage systems, high-performance networking, or AI/ML systems.
Responsibilities
  • Conduct research and development in DPU-based cloud acceleration and large-scale AI infrastructure.
  • Explore software-hardware co-design opportunities for AI/ML infrastructure, leveraging DPUs, GPUs, and custom hardware to optimize distributed training and inference.
  • Develop new techniques for accelerating distributed AI training and inference, including communication, data movement, resource management, and memory or cache systems.
  • Perform end-to-end performance analysis and optimization across hardware, device drivers, operating-system kernels, communication libraries, and user-space runtimes.
  • Build prototypes and evaluate proposed designs using representative cloud and AI workloads at scale.
  • Collaborate with hardware architects, systems engineers, and AI infrastructure teams to transition research ideas into production.
  • Contribute to technical proposals, architecture designs, publications, patents, and longer-term research directions.
Desired Qualifications
  • Record of research demonstrated through publications, technical reports, open-source contributions, or substantial research projects.
  • Experience designing, implementing, and evaluating production-quality or research prototype systems.
  • Familiarity with DPDK, RDMA, eBPF, or high-performance communication libraries.
  • Familiarity with hypervisors, kernel bypass, device virtualization, or hardware offload.
  • Familiarity with LLM serving, disaggregated inference, or KV-cache management.
  • Familiarity with distributed data loading, preprocessing, or storage systems.
  • Familiarity with performance modeling, profiling, or benchmarking.

About the company

ByteDance runs a global family of content platforms, including Toutiao, Douyin, TikTok, Helo, and Lark, that inform, entertain, and inspire users across many languages and regions. Each platform surfaces user-generated content through a recommendation algorithm that personalizes feeds to keep people engaged. It primarily earns money from advertising, with additional income from in-app purchases and partnerships. The company stands out by offering multiple products with strong short-form video focus and global localization to reach diverse audiences, aiming to grow users and sustain advertising-driven revenue.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$35.1B

Headquarters

Haidian, China

Founded

2012

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What believers are saying

  • Reuters said ByteDance raised $290 million for Anew Labs on September 16, 2026.
  • September 2026 lenders massively oversubscribed ByteDance's unsecured AI loan, signaling strong capital access.
  • Feishu reported H1 2026 ARR growth 2.5 times year-earlier pace, showing enterprise traction.

What critics are saying

  • September 2026 DOJ settlement collapsed in court, keeping U.S. TikTok control unstable.
  • The $29.6 billion September 2026 loan funds AI expansion and adds leverage pressure.
  • If U.S. regulators force deeper TikTok separation, ByteDance loses its core overseas growth engine.

What makes ByteDance unique

  • ByteDance spans TikTok, Douyin, Feishu, and Volcengine across consumer and enterprise.
  • September 2026 Doubao-Seed-2.1-pro 0915 pushed multimodal coding and agent workflows in Volcengine.
  • Feishu 8.0 plus Doubao Work tightly connect collaboration, agents, and compute into one stack.

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